In what you will say is nothing less than a miracle, a team of doctors in China's Shandong province removed a four-inch-long rusty knife from a man's skull 26 years after he was stabbed.
The man, identified as a farmer named Duorijie, was violently attacked in the mid-90s and left with the knife stuck inside his skull. Since then, he had been unable to remove it.
The 76-year-old underwent the long-waited procedure to remove the weapon on April 2 and 8. Fortunately, the procedure was carried out successfully and the surgeons described the case as 'miracle'.
Now, an image of an X-ray scan prior to the surgery has been widely shared on social media. It is a 'head-turner', to say the least. The surgery was carried out in the first affiliated hospital of Shandong First Medical University in Jinan. The hospital is named Shandong Quanfoshan Hospital.
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The chief neurosurgeon, Dr Liu Guangcun, said that removing the knife was the only way to end the man's suffering for once and for all.
Duorijie sought medical help back in 2012 after developing symptoms like chronic headache and loss of vision in his right eye. However, the knife couldn't be removed at that time.
Several years later, he was spotted with the knife inside his head by doctors during a medical tour of Qinghai.' Due to the limitations of hospitals in the area, the team of doctors shifted the man to Shandong for the best possible treatment.